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Baltimore’s an odd little city in some ways. For one thing, who thought it was a good idea to put a large convention center across the street from the baseball stadium? Throughout Otakon, cosplaying anime fans and befuddled Orioles fans competed for space on the sidewalks.

My family flew into town the day before Otakon, knowing that we’d be able to pick up our pre-registered badges that evening. (We didn’t get into the crazy long line that snaked around the convention center all afternoon; we just waited until we saw someone tweet that there was only a 10-minute wait. Shazam, done.)

But maybe it’s not so bad that the stadium is so close to the convention center, because the Sports Legends museum shares a building with a great find for any fan of vintage Disney comics and merchandise: Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, which a friend was kind enough to suggest we visit that afternoon.

The Geppi’s web site explains their mission:

Geppi’s Entertainment Museum is dedicated to presenting the story of popular culture since the nation’s earliest days in an entertaining and educational fashion so that our guests have the unique opportunity to walk through a timeline that parallels and is entwined with history as a whole.

I’m not sure how well they accomplish the entwinement of history; I didn’t notice any references to historical events other than those specifically referenced in the pop culture materials they’ve archived. But they’ve done a great job of collecting and displaying nostalgic ephemera, from comic books to underpants. We spent an hour or so working our way through the collections, constantly tugging at each others’ sleeves and exclaiming, “You’ve got to see this one!”

My only disappointment in the museum is that their Local Heroes collection only has a small John Waters section. Museum staff explained that this is because they’d like to keep the museum family-friendly, which means they really can’t reference most of his films (they did have a couple of pink flamingos, referencing his least family-friendly movie).

Below is a photo gallery of just a few of the Disney items I saw at the Geppi Museum on July 26, 2012. If you’re in Baltimore, with or without tens of thousands of anime fans, I’d encourage you to drop in and visit the collections.

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I’ve also got to include one non-Disney image, because it makes me giggle.

3 Responses to “Disneyana at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum”

You are gonna hate me for saying this…. they did make a replica of the Fantasyland game, as well as the Adventureland game. I bought it a few years ago either at Magic Kingdom or Disneyland. Maybe someone is selling it on eBay?

Amazingly, we were in the Geppi Museum on July 26th as well! What time of day were you there? I had been attending a business meeting at the Hyatt on Monday and then extended for a couple days of vacation. We did the Aquarium Wednesday and the Geppi Museum on Thursday morning before leaving for a couple days in DC. I have some of the same photo you do…like Orange Bird!

Since I don’t have my own blog, I was thinking about submitting a trip report to someone on the internet, but you’ve beat me to it! Just read George Taylor’s list of links from Aug. 12 and found your blog.

Definitely recommend the museum to those passing through…especially on 1/2 price Thursdays. Too bad there wasn’t any Disneyana in the gift shop. We spent enough on comics and Star Wars merch anyway.